Marcia Walker-McWilliams is Executive Director of the Tulane University History Project, a long-term project engaging the impacts of slavery, segregation and issues of racial equity at Tulane University. She is a former Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC). She received a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in Social Policy and African American Studies from Northwestern University. She is the author of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-author of The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience and Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) with Traci Parker. Marcia has curated historical exhibits at the Chicago Public Library and the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center.
Marcia taught courses in American history and African American Studies at Lone Star College, Prairie View A&M University, the University of Houston, and Rice University where she also served as an Associate Director in the Center for Civic Leadership. She sits on the board of several organizations including the Digital Public Library of America.
